The last of the mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans (hereinafter Mohicans for short) was published in 1826 and was the second,of the group of five novels, known as \'the Leatherstocking Tales\', for which James Fenimore Cooper is now best known. The name derives from the central character who appears in all of them at various stages ofhis life and under various ticles. In the first of the novels to be published, The Pioneers (1823), he is called Leatherstocking; in Mohicans he is Hawk-eye; in the third of them, The Prairie (1827), he is known as the Trapper. The two later novels in the series, The Pathfinder (1840) and The Deerslayer (1841), take their ticles from his other aliases.